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A42012 A voice of comfort sounded forth and sent into the world to all the mourners in Zion who are born of the birth immortal wherein is declared the purpose of the living God concerning the righteous and the wicked / by Tho. Green. Greene, Thomas, 1634?-1699. 1665 (1665) Wing G1847; ESTC R28047 5,402 10

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A Voice of Comfort Sounded forth and sent into the World To all the MOURNERS IN ZION Who are born of the Birth Immortal WHEREIN Is declared the Purpose of the Living God Concerning the Righteous and the Wicked By a Friend of Zions Seed Tho. Green London Printed in the Year 1665. A Voice of Comfort sounded forth c. Friends WHO are the beloved of the Lord who are called by scorners Quakers you the Lord hath blessed and often visited and hath called you out of darkness and hath brought many of you out of Captivity from under Sathans power to experience his goodness in the Light and Life of his Son Christ Jesus and since the day of his first Visitation and turning of us unto himself he hath never left us though he hath suffered many to be deeply tryed some by stripings bruisings woundings imprisonments banishment and death and in all these things he hath been a God nigh at hand to bear up and support the weakest child that he hath called to bear testimony to his name in the six troubles he hath not left them nor in the seventh he will not fail Oh you dear and pretious Sons and Daughters of Zion your birth is from Eternity your strength is from the mighty one who is the Being of Beings who doth whatsoever pleaseth him Oh my heart is in love with you and my life dwelleth among you and as concerning ye my heart hath been ponderous with my God and my spirit hath cryed wherewithal shall Jacob be raised up and Zions Mourners be comforted and this hath been answered in my heart from the Lord in the feeling of his love and of his dreadful Presence saying Fear not oh Daughter of Zion since the day of thy birth and nativity I have borne thee up and nourished thee as a little Child and led thee as a tender one and my eye of pitty hath been upon thee and I have entered into Covenant with thee and I am God that never changeth and I will never leave thee nor forsake thee And this further is the purpose of the Lord concerning thee oh thou afflicted one and disconsolated Child who art ready to say within thy self why doth the Lord take away the righteous with the wicked and remove the Innocent from the Earth in this Contagion and take away some of the faithful People who have put their whole trust in him and have chosen the Lord to be their God and that have no hope nor expectation of comfort but only from the Lord and because of this I and many a weak one are shaken in our minds because we see the wicked boast and rejoyce at the death of the Righteous and holy people of the Lord who triumph and say the Lord is angry with them for he cuts them off as he doth the wicked and this grieveth me most of all because they lift up their voice now and cry where is now your God Oh thou tender and afflicted one be not cast down in thy mind neither let thy heart be troubled nor thy spirit within thee grieved who hast believed and received with joyfulness the appearance of Gods grace and hast been led thereby out of the wayes of the wicked into the way where the righteous walk and meet with comfort and Heavenly refreshments from the Lord of Life Oh fear thou not thou tender one for there is nothing shall befall thee but what is common to men for the Lord hath made the World all of one Blood and of flesh which is as grass which must die and our bodies are mortal as well as others but our life by which we live to the Lord is eternal which life is more and more revealed to all that are begotten and born of the Immortal seed but our life is hid with Christ in God from all who are in the first nature and know nothing of the Lord but what they know naturally not being born again nor crucified to the evils of this World by the power of Gods endless life these knows not the end of the Righteous neither discerns the things of God yet let the Righteous know and the upright consider that in all ages the Lord hath tryed his dearest Servants and hath weaned them from all Creature-enjoyments and hath stripped them naked that he might cloath them with that Garment that never waxeth old and feed them with that bread which nourisheth to Eternity Oh how did he try righteous Abraham by requiring of him to offer up Isaac but his reward was known in the end And how did he try Jacob with the parting from Benjamin but Joseph was found thereby And how did he try Job with afflictions many wayes unto whom dreadful tidings was brought who said the Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away and blessed be his most holy name And how did he try David Daniel and Jonah and delivered them in the day of their distress and was their comfort in the day of affliction and a covert for them in the day of Calamity Thus the Lord hath dealt with the faithful Prophets Christ and the Apostles and the wicked said as at this day they do to Gods people because God is executing his determinate will for it was said to Jesus if thou be the Christ come down from the Cross and save thy self and us but he was obedient unto the death and his Apostles they traveled in the way of the Lord and lived so that they might finish their course with joy they were beloved of the Lord yet he suffered them to be tryed and to be tribulated and the messenger of Sathan they knew a thorne in the flesh they witnessed but he that prevails with God prayed that their Faith might not fail Thus did the Righteous in all ages hear the rod and him that had appointed it and learned obedience by the things that they suffered and by the chastisement of the Lord they were drawn nearer unto him even as those people in the dayes of old who said other Lords hath had D●minion over us but now we will make mention of thy name for thou art the Lord our God and the Prophet said though thou kill me yet will I trust in thee and said though I go to the bottom of the Mountains there wilt thou find me the Rocks nor Hills cannot hide me neither can the strength of Men nor Horses deliver me therefore will I remember the years of the right hand of the most High and while I have breath will praise his Name But oh saith the afflicted one I have often tasted of the mercies of the Lord and his goodness from day to day I have enjoyed since the time I received in his righteous Judgments against the Man of Sin which was revealed by the brightness of the light of Christ Jesus that did shine in my heart in an acceptable time it was a day of comfort since I have had hours of refreshment from the Lord by which I have been